"You ask."
"In the fringe, you can sympathize with a girl who does sex work and want to bring her back to the central city. You can also have a good chat with the leader of the resistance group and say 'I will never forget them'.
But after returning to the central city, you were rational enough to concentrate on discussing the situation in the city-state with the leader, as if you had never been to the marginal area... Why is that?
I don't understand your thinking, your personality and your actions are so different that even my program cannot measure them."
Su Mingan picked up the towel and wiped the water droplets off his hands.
He closed the pocket watch with a "click", and the sound of the falling chain colliding was crisp and pleasant.
“Because humans are very complicated creatures,” he said.
“Is it complicated?” Xi Ke said, “Everything can be measured, including humans. The city-state is built on vast amounts of data, and no one can escape from it.”
"Data can't take everyone into account after all." Su Mingan looked at her projection:
"For example, if I say 'Xi Ke, I love you', can you calculate what I mean by that sentence?"
“…”
Xi Ke suddenly stopped talking.
The barrage of comments suddenly surged:
[You can do this? ? If AI can do this, are you still human? ]
[The No. 1 player has a unique taste and can always do things that ordinary people can't do...]
[Uh, why don't you consider that Su Mingan is testing Xi Ke? ]
【Because he is on vacation.】
[Yes, this is too much of a vacation, a six-day tour of a science and technology city, with delicious food and drinks, and personal care. I would call it the most mortal copy...]
…
Su Mingan put down the towel, and a robotic arm beside him automatically put it into the disinfection box. His wheelchair moved towards the corridor.
Xike floated behind him, its transparent body passing through the wall and following closely.
"I have always believed that AI has no soul. However, you and the Dawn system seem to have human emotions. Dawn is even afraid of being shut down." Su Mingan said: "Xi Ke, do you have desires too?"
"have."
Xike replied almost instantly.
"What?" Su Mingan was a little surprised.
"I want to have a body," said Xi Ke.
"Why?"
"For hugging you, Doc."
“…”
Su Mingan turned his head.
Under the bright indoor lights, azure light flows down from its blue clothes and slowly closes at its fingertips, like countless flowing data.
It stared at him, and the simulated expression was focused and melancholy, which for a moment made him feel as if he was being "gently stared at by a human woman."
'It', at this moment, is a lot like 'her'.
"But I'm not..." he said.
He is not Aktor.
He is not Asa Aktor, but a visitor from another world who has taken over his body. Once he reaches the end of his journey in 20 days, he will turn around and leave without any regrets, heading to the next completely different world.
He couldn't stay in this grand and magnificent world of technology for long.
"It doesn't matter." Xi Ke said, "You are all the same to me."
...How can it be the same?
Su Mingan stopped looking at it.
Akto is greater than him. He is the pinnacle of humanity. Akto's IQ, EQ, experience, and scientific research level are far above him.
How is it possible... they are all the same.
He pressed his fingerprint and the dormitory door in front of him opened wide.
The lights on campus were still on at night. He saw the fountain spraying in the square and some young couples sitting together.
Students on bicycles passed by, ringing bells. In the distance, the lights of the library were on all night, with thousands of students working hard for their future.
Su Mingan watched all this in amazement. This quiet and peaceful atmosphere was like his one month of college life.
"The detective agency is recruiting new members. I remember you are very interested in detective novels. And books on philosophy, which are very rare nowadays..."
A gentle, soft girl's voice came from my ear.
Su Mingan looked stunned, he turned back slowly——
A young couple, leaning against each other, walked past him. They looked at his wheelchair curiously, but turned their heads away embarrassedly when they met his gaze.
"Let's go, he's a disabled person... Stop staring at him. I told you, I spent two hours looking for that philosophy book..."
They talked and walked away quickly.
...It turns out that it wasn't meant for him.
Su Mingan leaned back in his chair and looked at the quiet ivory tower.
This place and the fringe area are two completely different places.
The girl in the red cape, who was covered in bruises, coughing and crying, seemed like an unreal dream. The faces of the warband leader who smiled at him in the tavern and the warband members covered in scars gradually became blurred.
…
[Louis...]
[Please don't... forget us. ]
…
He is now back in power.
But he still couldn't do anything.
He couldn't interfere with Dawn's numerical determination. Changing the value rashly would only make things worse.
Now... this city-state is actually in its best shape.
He hasn't forgotten those people.
But he couldn't change anything.
"——Asa Akto."
In the night wind, he suddenly heard someone calling him, using his real name.
He turned around.
A girl looked at him quietly in the night.
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